Quote: woolly07 "Planning to rebuild over a couple of years is a dangerous plan. If you don't get back up straight away you will lose your best players and get stuck in that division. When the Bulls went down ticket prices were sold under the banner of being a SL team playing in the championship. Now, we have signed too many championship players because the cap was half that of SL and we didn't have the money anyway. We have now turned into a genuine championship team. Stay there too long and you turn into them. That is why you must get straight back up.
You must not sign players to finish in the top four. You will do that easily enough.
You have got 23 pre-season warm up games ahead of the real middle 8 competition. It isn't the championship teams you need to sign players to beat. It is those 4 SL teams you need to beat. The ones you couldn't beat this time. So, you actually need a better team than you have now on a budget of £1.5m less.
That is how tough it will be. It is possible as Leigh have shown but they have an owner who paid out big time.
The other danger is that those 23 pre-season games don't prepare you for the SL teams. Standards drop and players lose that edge against poor championship teams and can't lift when August comes around.
It will be interesting to see how you go but there are so many obstacles ahead that aren't apparent till you have been there for a while.'"
Really good advice Woolly07.
We need to keep as many players that we can and ditch those that aren't good enough (I would get rid of: Sio because he's going, Kelly, Dixon, Horne, Campo, Green and Boudebza) A team of Cockayne, Shaw, Minns, Thornley, Mantellatto, Marsh, AN OTHER, Walker, Lunt, Tilse, Blair, Greenwood and Clarkson with a bench of Allgood, Scruton, Donaldson and Larroyer will get us in to the top two. Then when the transfer deadline comes late in the season we have three overseas spots for short term signings.
It would be difficult to keep Lunt, Blair and Walker but we do need to keep the quality to beat the sl teams in the play offs, that's why we need to keep open the overseas places so that we can strengthen at the end of the season just before the play offs.
